Paul Litwin's Blog

Note: the original post had several errors in dates. All the errors, I believe, have been corrected. Howerver, the URL of the post still uses the original, incorrect date but I don't want to change that URL. Sorry for the confusion.

I am putting out a call for abstracts to present at the Spring 2009 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando, March 23-26th 2009. The due date for submissions is September 6, 2008.
 
For submitting sessions, please use this URL:
http://www.deeptraining.com/devconnections/abstracts

Please keep the abstracts under 200 words each and in one paragraph. No bulleted items and line breaks, and please use a spell-checker.

Please submit at least 3 abstracts, but it would help your chances of being selected if you submitted 5 or more abstracts. Also, you are encouraged to suggest all-day pre or post conference workshops as well.

We need to finalize the conference content and the tracks layout by the coming November conference in Las Vegas, so we need your abstracts by September 6th. No exceptions on late submissions!

New for Spring 2009: we will have a separate, dedicated Silverlight track of 9 talks in addition to the 27 ASP.NET talks, so please include those Silverlight talk proposals. Anything on ASP.NET or Silverlight is fair game. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* ASP.NET Webforms
* ASP.NET AJAX
* Silverlight 2.0
* ASP.NET MVC
* SP1 features, including Entity Framework/LINQ to Entities, Dynamic Data, Routing support, ADO.NET Data Services

Please realize that while we want a lot of the new and the cool, it's also okay to propose sessions on the more mundane "real world" stuff as it pertains to ASP.NET or Silverlight.

Note: You will not be able to speak at a DevConnections show if you are also presenting at a competitor's show, in the same state, within 30 days of the DevConnections show. To be more specific, if you wish to speak at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections or any other DevConnections show this Spring in Orlando, you are precluded from speaking at any competing conferences in the state of Florida between February 26, 2009 and April 23, 2009. Note: any events run by Microsoft (e.g., PDC, Tech*Ed) or user groups are NOT considered competitive.

What you will get if selected:
* $500 per regular conference talk.
* Compensation for full-day workshops ranges from $500 for 1-20 attendees to $2500 for 200+ attendees.
* Coach airfare and hotel stay paid by the conference.
* Free admission to all of the co-located conferences
* Speaker party
* The adoration of attendees
* etc.

Good luck and thank you,
 
Paul Litwin
Microsoft ASP.NET Conference Chair